All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 14.0 Academocracy
All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 14.0 Academocracy, is now posted.
Noetic File 14.0: Academocracy
The Narrator eludes pursuit of assassins lying in wait for him, and discovers the body of Amphitricia prone before his doors.
Of greater interest to academia are passages in this file describing the more and laws of Earthmen of this century. Scholarship can find no archaeological evidence to support this report of prenatal infanticide, alleged here to be a barbarism halted by the Machines of Earth.
The Narrator’s confusion about the illegality of prophylactics, his distaste for strong drink, and his comment that the women of his world go veiled, lead some savants to speculate he is a Neo-Mormon or a Mohammedan, and that the mention of religion as Zen Gnosticism is a later interpolation, prompted by the secular sentiments of later copyists.
It is noteworthy that he does not recognize the aquanimation water-sculpture mentioned in file 7.0 for what it is, a sacramental oxygenated hydraulic meditation instrument sacred to the Diamond Zen sect of 81 Eridani, encoded by the Founder of the Archivist Order, Liyet Ansar.
It is for this reason that settled opinion regards the passage as ironic, as no librarian could be unfamiliar with his own founder’s handiwork, albeit some unconventional thinkers propose that the Narrator is not a librarian at all; an unorthodox opinion verging on heresy.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
